Submit

Hi there! So you want to add a piece to the 128kb gallery? That’s amazing! There are a few rules you have to follow to get your work accepted. Please check the following formal parameters:

• file format
  • .gif
• maximum filesize
  • 128KB
• accepted dimensions
  • in order to possibly exhibit the submitted works in the future and display them on matrix displays, we have defined a range of possible formats:
  • 1:1
    • 128 * 128 px
    • 64 * 64 px
  • 9:16
    • 72 * 128 px
    • 36 * 64 px
  • 16:9
    • 128 * 72 px
    • 64 * 36 px
  • 4:3
    • 128 * 96 px
    • 64 * 48 px
  • 3:4
    • 96 * 128 px
    • 48 * 64 px
• maximum duration?
  • not limited
• loop
  • yes, please!
• speed
  • any
• maximum amount of colors
  • as many as you want
• allowed technologies
  • 128KB is an exhibition platform for works that fall into the category Creative Coding. For this reason, a prerequisite for submission is that the work was made with code. But of course, you are free to choose the code-based tool. Many use Processing or p5.js though.
  • When it comes to converting and/or optimising your gif, we do not take such a narrow view. For that you can use any tool you want.

Curation

We really appriciate every single upload, it’s great that took the time to create something for this platform! But we also try to keep the conceptual quality of the works on this platform as high as possible and that’s why unfortunately we can’t accept and upload all works that people submit.

Technical weaknesses and strenghts

In the past we have received many works that were interesting from a solely technical perspecitve but lacked an original idea and/or an interesting thought. Also the technical quality beyond surpassing the requirements is very important. Some submissions were also quite weak from a technical perspective: Some gifs could have been looped perfectly (so that you do not see a beginning and an end), but instead have hard cuts.

Visual weaknesses and strenghts

• Some gifs are just visual noise an generative complexity.
• Other submissions were just downscaled versions of existing works that were actually to complex for the small format.

Conceptual weaknesses and strenghts

We really celebrate work that takes the limitations of the medium into account, that try to express something.

Ready?

Everything clear and set? Then let’s go!